MHA/BNHA react to For The Want of A Nail by Clouds part 1

Inko: That... worrying.

Bakugo: I'm sure it's fine, Auntie.

Even after an hour-long shower, Izuku still felt the weight of the past 24 hours clinging to his skin. All Might looked down on him from every wall in his room, judgmental eyes staring straight into his soul.

You can't be a hero

Not without a quirk

Be realistic

Gran Torino: Toshinori!

All Might(flinching): You already hit me on the head after we went back from last time for that... can you not do it again? Please?

Toga: Sheesh, that world too?

Spinner: I guess not even All Might is perfect...

Izuku went to bed crying for his broken dream.

His room looked empty without all his All Might merch.

Midoriya: I threw away my merch?!

Mitsuki: That's a lot to have gotten rid of... but I don't really care. Hmph, me and All Might are going to have a talk later.

It wasn't that Izuku hated All Might now, it's just that every time he looked at the smiling hero, all he could think was you can't be a hero. Just because Izuku was finally coming to terms with that fact didn't mean he needed it playing on a loop in his head every time he's at home. He still had a few posters up from some of his other favorite heroes, but he'd changed his sheets to a plain black set that he'd found collecting dust in the linen closet paired with a gold pillowcase. It wasn't official merchandise, but it reminded Izuku of Eraserhead anyway.

Midnight: Shou, look! He's a fan!

Aizawa: I can see that...

Joke: Wait, he knows about you? You're the most secret of all underground heroes ever.

Aizawa: Well apparently the problem child is an expert on a lot of weird things.

It had taken a few days for him to gather the courage, but Izuku had finally sat down and updated his hero analysis notebooks, leaving out the parts on All Might's secret weakness. It was... oddly comforting. He had thought it would be painful and it was in some ways, but it was mostly familiar, like his analysis was the only part of himself that hadn't shattered alongside his hero dream. That was why he found himself, during his latest bout with insomnia, browsing a lesser-known hero forum. He'd found it several years earlier and quickly figured out that a lot of underground heroes used it to communicate with each other, since it offered encrypted chats and accounts were only known by random numbers, rather than usernames. He'd spent about two weeks back then figuring out which accounts corresponded to which heroes, but he had never posted himself.

Tsukauchi: ...It only took him two weeks?

Joke: Huh I use that forum... should I be worried?

Aizawa: So do I but we'll be fine. It's just problem child.

Compress: Do you think we should look into this hero forum?

Shigaraki: They wouldn't be stupid enough to put anything important in the group chat though.

As Izuku drowsily scrolled through old posts, a crazy idea occurred to him. If he couldn't be a hero himself, why couldn't he help the real heroes be better?

In the morning, he'd blame it on sleep deprivation and then promptly die of mortification, but that didn't change the fact that, at two o'clock in the morning, Izuku Midoriya sent ten underground heroes in-depth analyses of their quirks and fighting styles.

Midoriya(sitting upright): Oh my- why did I do that?!

Shinso: Blame it on sleep deprivation.

Monoma: Does he really think he can help heroes?

Kendo: I mean I would usually hit you for a comment like that but yeah these are pros we're talking about...

New Message

12579: (Eraserhead)

Thank you for the analysis. It was eye opening to see my strengths and weaknesses from an outside perspective, not to mention the ideas for improvement.

Midoriya: Excuse me what?!

Uraraka: Hey, good job, Deku! Aizawa-sensei thinks it's great and you know he never compliments anyone.

Mic: Don't you usually hate analysts Shou?

Aizawa: Yes, but apparently either my other self doesn't or something about problem child's is impressive.

Izuku was hyperventilating. Eraserhead, the Eraserhead , had thanked him for his analysis. The Eraserhead! It almost made up for the Kachaan and his lackeys beating him up again during lunch. Not quite, because the bullying had gotten worse since the sludge villain incident, but it came close!

Kaminari: Great, another version of bully version of Bakugo.

Tsu: I almost forgot that the Undead Schoolgirl Bakugo was a bully, ribbit.

Hagakure: Yeah but after she... died... he became really sweet.

Kirishima: Huh, why are other versions of Bakugo so mean to Midoriya if he's quirkless... (Bakugo doesn't say anything)

Several other heroes had also sent him messages thanking him, while others, who had apparently heard of his analyses from their friends, had asked him to send them theirs.

Mirko: Check their identities first!

He was just finishing up verifying the identities of those who had requested analyses (to make sure he wasn't accidentally helping any villains) when he saw a blinking notification in the bottom left corner of his screen.

Hawks: Way ahead of you, Rumi.

Vlad: At least he's playing it smart.

New Message

12579: (Eraserhead)

Do you analyze villains?

Spinner: Hang on it ends there?!

Kamui: I hate cliffhangers.

Jana: So do I but the chapters aren't as long as the Undead Schoolgirl's. Anyway time for the next universe.

Todoroki: It's Mastermind, right?

Jana(clicking to the next chapter): Yup.